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suppressed native religions in order to convert masses of natives to Catholicism. The Puritans from England, in 1637, similarly took advantage of the negative perception of Native Americans to justify their brutal killing of the Pequot tribe when hostilities exploded. Pequot villages were burned down and the survivors were shot, virtually annihilating the tribe. After English critics bashed them, the Puritans made feeble efforts to convert the surviving natives to Christianity. In doing so, the…

History 1376- Paper Assignment #1 Dear mom and dad it’s me Wounmee, I know it has been a while, but I just wanted to write to you about how my time here in New England. I moved here because I didn’t like the Protestant church is back home. When I was in England I heard about a group of people who called themselves the Puritans. They were a group who also believed that the Protestant Church was not complete and was corrupt just like the Catholics. The Puritans wanted to clean up the church…

self-governing agreement on their own, which was called the "Mayflower Compact." When the Pilgrims' arrived nearly wiped out the New England Indians. The good relationship with the Indians ended in 1636 when the Massachusetts Bay Puritans declared war on the Pequot Tribe and Plymouth was dragged into the…

It 's not hard to understand the plot of this poem or the language, though it can be hard to stomach the truths that it waves in your face. The image of the ears can be disturbing, but we get the full force of the message. The Americans have entered the house of a colonel in El Salvador during the civil war in the late 1970s. The Colonel captures the brutality of the people in El Salvador at the hands of the high ranking military man and uncovers the hidden inhuman treatment of the people in…

Puritan Influence on Modern Times and Ideas Have you ever noticed how similar puritan traditions and our modern society are when compared? For example, throughout history we have seen many occasions where women are seen as inferior, religious persons making it a common practice and societal law to go to church every week, how we Americans conduct ourselves on a daily basis, and even the way we dress. There are still many concerns on how much of the puritan society still affects us today,…

once again; that makes for two tears in thirteen months. ACL tears have become more and more common “such a circumstance isn’t uncommon among women’s basketball players” (Clardie). This circumstance may not mean much to us here in the small town of Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, but…

the Massachusetts Bay Colony had started with the ideal of “selfless community”. But soon realized that was impossible. Through the internal conflicts within the community by separate factions wanting a certain autonomy to the “brutal war” with the Pequot Indians materialism won out over the Christian belief, “Love your Enemies, do good to them that hate you. Matthew 5.44. (p 179) . The social climate of the time can be fashioned by the phrase made popular by the Rodney King riots “Can’t we…

The organization the essay is about, is the National Theater of the Deaf. The two addresses of the theaters are Monte Cristo Cottage 325 Pequot Avenue New London, CT 06320 and 139 North Main Street West Hartford, CT 06107. The company began in 1967, 10 years after David Hays, Dr. Edna Simon Levine, and Broadway's director Arthur Penn and actress Anne Bancroft got the idea. It all started in the 1950's when the show Miracle Worker was on broadway. Hays was the set designer of the show and was…

French, English, and Spanish colonists all reacted to and treated indigenous American Indians differently. The question is what exactly led to these different reactions? Based on historical evidence, the original objectives of European colonists seem to be the most influential factors regarding their relationships with American Indians. Of course, many other factors played into these historical interactions; however this seems to be the defining aspect of them all. To begin, we’ll start with…

It all started with a stretch. Game day had arrived, and as a team, we were all ready to go out and kill it. We had already gotten dressed in our new uniforms, stretched, and finished warming up our legs in the Pequot Lakes High School hallway. Pequot had a great volleyball program, along with some great players, so we knew that the match against them would be a tough one. We all gathered in the locker room with the coaches, and the starters names were already written on the whiteboard: Hiltner,…